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I'm really interested in how non-American countries process race.

A lot of time, I'd spell things in standard English instead of phonetically because I want people to understand what's going on. It's also very lyrical, and the great thing about lyrical prose is even when you're not totally sure of the words, you can be swayed by the musicality of it.

I wanted a picture of Jamaica that isn't in books, and certainly not in novels.

I think, for me, there's The Book I Should Write and The Book I Wanted to Write - and they weren't the same book. The Book I Should Write should be realistic, since I studied English Lit. It should be cultural. It should reflect where I am today. The Book I Wanted to Write would probably include flying women, magic, and all of that.

Some of the craziest aspects about 'Weeper' were the things I found out to be true. I mean, true of people.

My first novel, 'John Crow's Devil,' freed me up to write about the past, and 'The Book of Night Women' freed me up to have a book totally based on voice and being very spontaneous.

I find the violence in PG13 movies unbearable. This kid will never run home, never have another birthday. His death is slow, nightmarish. And you have to explore the consequences - the people who live on with this death.

I think the Greeks were the only people ever to nail character. Their heroes are deeply flawed.

There was never a single murder in my neighbourhood; there was barely a robbery. It was so suburban, it was almost disappointing.

In 1976, Rastafarians were one of the most violated, persecuted groups in Jamaica. They could be beaten within an inch of their lives, or detained for two years, just for being found in a 'proper' neighbourhood.

'The Daily Mail' interviewed my friends in Jamaica to find out if I was ever the victim of a vicious homophobic attack because, to them, I'm a gay refugee. But nothing like that happened. So, no surprise, that story didn't appear. I'm really pretty boring.

At 28 years old, seven years out of college, I was so convinced that my voice outed me as a fag that I had stopped speaking to people I didn't know.

We shouldn't romanticize rejection. There's nothing romantic about rejection. It's horrible.

Caribbean literature only has to be true to itself. It doesn't need colonialism or imperialism. It's always been vibrant.

I come from a very big family from every economic background. Some of the streets I talk about, I've actually walked on because I have family from there. Jamaica has so many contradictions.

If your depiction of loss doesn't make the reader feel loss, then you didn't depict it right.

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